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Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass

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Reading Lessons: An English Teacher’s Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us

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The Mother’s Smile: Philosophical Formation in the Welcome of Mothers and Friends by Esther Lightcap Meek

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I came to see that philosophy concerns the everyday, rather than cerebral, abstract esoterica. Philosophy is concrete and felt, the ground beneath and within everything we are and do. It and we deserve that it be so rendered.

Bardskull

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The Thoughtful Home

by Dia Boyle

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“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.”
― J.A. Baker, The Peregrine

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“So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

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“When the aromatic savour of the pine goes searching into the deepest recesses of my lungs, I know it is life that is entering. I draw life in through the delicate hairs of my nostrils.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

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“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

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“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

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